How to git (and github)

Friday, Apr 17, 2020
Howto git

Version control is important. Git is powerful and GitHub makes it easy to get your project out on the web. My workflow is (uses hub to carry out Github work from command line too):

1. Create a project directory, add .gitignore and README.md
2. Initialize git

git init

3. Add files

git add .

4. First commit

git commit -m "To begin, begin."

5. Create a new Github repository with the same name as current directory

hub create

6. Push local changes to Github

git push -u origin HEAD

7. Think of a problem to fix or feature to add. Create and checkout a branch to work on that problem

git checkout -b fixOrAddSomething

8. Stage the files created/changed to solve the problem

git add --all

9. Commit the files

git commit -m "fixed or added something"

10. Switch to master

git branch master

11. Merge changes from branch to master

git merge fixOrAddSomething

12. Push changes to Github

git push origin master

13. Take a break
14. Go back to step 7 and have fun!

Other useful commands

git add file(s)           // add specific files
git add -u                // add all modified files
git log                   // check log
git branch                // list all branches and active branch
git branch -d someBranch  // delete a branch
git reset HEAD someFile   // unstage a file